re: Flying into LAX from Asia - help me survive the jetlag

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You actually need to stay awake the entire flight from TPE

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That's just not possible. As much as I would like that to happen it's not realistic.

Disneyland is happening but not until two days after we land, the Angels game wouldn't be planned in advance only an option if we feel up for it.

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If you sleep for six hours on the flight from TPE to LAX, you're sleeping from approximately 10AM (allowing for food service) to 4PM LAX time. You *won't be able to sleep* unless you get blackout drunk once you hit LAX.

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I don't think we will get 6 hours even if we tried but my goal would be get whatever sleep we could within the first 6 hours. Our bodies won't be acclimated to Pacific yet so it will still "feel like" 2 or 3 am.

It would be ideal to land at LAX at 9pm and be close to go to sleep but I know without investing the time during our vacation to shift our sleep schedules it's not going to happen.

At some point we're going to need to sleep during the travel, the question is when and for how long?

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If you're going to try your strategy, which is the opposite of how I operate, you need to create financial incentives for you to attempt to wake up for your phone alarms. Pay for tickets and passes now, and that might burn through the "ten more minutes" which turns into five more hours of sleep after you land in LAX.

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I have no clue what this means.